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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Closed Form
Audience
Octave
Rhyme
2. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Repetition
Lyric Poem
Plot
Aside
3. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Figurative Language
Situational Irony
Closed Form
Metonymy
4. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Irony
Conflict
Satire
Apostrophe
5. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Symbol
Epic
Scenes
Spondee
6. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Simile
Enjambment
Foot
Literal Language
7. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Alliteration
Plot
Cliche
Epigram
8. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Stereotype
Complication
Cliche
Sonnet
9. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Closed Form
Couplet
1st Person
Tercet
10. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Parody
Point of View
Connotation
Simile
11. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Metaphor
Aside
Fiction
Iamb
12. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Imagery
Symbolism
Trochee
Mood
13. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Elegy
Satire
Narrative Poem
Author's Purpose
14. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Plot
Alliteration
Stereotype
Synecdoche
15. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Tone
Assonance
Dactyl
Meter
16. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Stanza
Dialogue
Act
Epigram
17. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Sestina
Blank Verse
Foot
Alliteration
18. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Lyric Poem
Figurative Language
Elision
Comic Relief
19. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Rhyme
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Personification
Exposition
20. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Rhythm
Understatement
Suspense
Reversal
21. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
Persona
Voice
Oxymoron
Assonance
22. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Motif
1st Person
Symbolism
Scenes
23. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Narrative Poem
Comic Relief
Subplot
Dramatic Irony
24. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Style
Figurative Language
Subplot
Antagonist
25. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Assonance
Structure
Aphorism
Characterization
26. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Irony
Apostrophe
Setting
Parody
27. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Apostrophe
Point of View
Audience
Narrative Poem
28. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Falling Action
Plot
Climax
Suspense
29. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Free Verse
Falling Action
Rhyme
Synecdoche
30. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Foil
Anapest
Ballad
Subplot
31. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Meter
Catharsis
Character
Narrative Poem
32. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.
Structure
Falling Meter
Oxymoron
Spondee
33. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Spondee
Nonfiction
Allusion
34. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Repetition
Octave
Author's Purpose
Epiphany
35. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Persona
Verbal Irony
Hyperbole
36. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.
Symbol
Epiphany
Style
Narrative Poem
37. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Metonymy
Aphorism
Stereotype
Subject
38. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Solioquy
Antagonist
Tercet
Plot
39. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Plot
Situational Irony
Allusion
Hyperbole
40. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Solioquy
Character
Convention
Structure
41. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Narrator
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Simile
Dialogue
42. A poem that tells a story.
Narrative Poem
Subject
Dialogue
Allegory
43. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Villanelle
Parable
Spondee
Elegy
44. The main character of a literary work.
Elision
Sonnet
Internal Conflict
Protagonist
45. A four line stanza in a poem.
Quatrain
Legend
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Hyperbole
46. A short saying with a moral.
Act
Aphorism
Pyrrhic
Flashback
47. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Structure
Satire
Subject
Foot
48. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Verbal Irony
Style
Stereotype
Irony
49. A character struggles against some outside force.
Allegory
External Conflict
Foreshadowing
Scenes
50. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Allegory
Analogy
Characterization
3rd Person (Limited)